In honor of Chris Crutcher's newest book,Deadline, I am offering my students a lifeline to raise their grades prior to the end of the grading period, September 21, 2007.
Attend the Not Your Mother's Book Club event featuring Mr. Crutcher. Be sure to check in with me once you arrive at the Burlingame Library. Return from that event and post comments about his new book and the event.
7 comments:
The event was good, it wasn’t to long, I thought it was going to be longer. Chris Crutcher was funny, had some good stories. They way he grow up and where he grow up I would never thing he was going to be a writer, or how he is now I would never think that he is one. His new book seams like it is a good book. I don’t know about the child-molesting bum, and why he wants to help him out, but I guess I would have to read the book if I want to find out.
Chris Crutcher was a funny and interesting man. i would like to read his books they seem very interesting.. i also really want to read "Deadline" it seems like a really good story. the event was short and i kind of think it was too short to attend in a library pretty far. But it was really worth it to meet him.
I love th fact that both Sherman Alexie and Chris Crutcher both wrote about their lives and were both hilarious. I also would like to agknowledge the "hilariosity" of him speaking of his personal, painful, "loud", experiances with sports and pretty girls. All in all, Chris Crutcher is a very good, professional speaker.
I liked the event and it did incourage me to read the book "Dealine" i just hop that its as good as Chinese Handcuffs.
Mrs. Henry if you are still going to give me the pionts read this one because the other one wasn't to enough.
The author’s event at the Burlingame Library featuring Chris Cruncher and his new book “Deadline” encouraged me to read it for this term as an outside reading book. Overall I thought that the presentation was good it made many people laugh. He was inspiriting too many writes because he gave out tips how to be a writer. He said that “best things to write about are people’s true life experiences”. I also love the fact that he Included the fact about students "that at least five of the 31 students did or do suffer from, eating disorders, sexual harassment because now I feel like I should be more aware or consciences about what I say to the people in my class. And I belived that quote was totally true.
Chris Crutcher seemed like a cool guy. He seemed very relatable, like he writes about real things that kids go through these days. The event seemed ok. It wasnt too long, like i wasnt about to fall alseep or anything, so that was good. Basically, it was good.
because i went to this event, i had to stay up very late to complete my homework. and i have to say, it was well worth it.
Chris was a guy with a great sense of humor. his high school stories were absolutely hilarious. especially when he told us how he lost his teeth in softball. and how the principal displayed the bat next to the trophys with his teeth still stuck in it with a picture of him and the note "Don't try this at home." i always thought of writers as being really boring and very nerdy, but being to two author events has completely changed my perception. i guess that's just another stereotype and i'm sure i'm not the only one who thought that way. i think that's the reason most people don't go to author events.
based on life in general, he is very intelligent. he talked about the homeless ex-child molester. when most people see someone like that, all they think about is that he should go to jail and suffer, but Chris exposed the idea that he has already done his share of suffering. that he's suffered enough. i think that is very profound. people don't think about the possibility that he might have learned from his mistakes, because it isn't a mistake that they would have made, but the fact of the matter is that people are different and you learn through your mistakes and your experience. i'm sure there are mistakes that they have made that the child molester wouldn't have. the important part is that he learned from what he did, but all people think about is who will he molest next, and it scares the hell out of them. i believe that people need to keep an open mind when introduced to these sort of things. i believe that there would be less hate in this world if people could open their minds, but with the way people are, no one who's done a crime of this magnitude can really be forgiven.
i'm glad that Chris Crutcher thinks differently. i love it when people think outside the box and expose new ideas. it gives me a different perception on the world. i completely respect him for these ideas. i believe his book "Deadline" will open the eyes of anyone who reads it.
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